ROYAL SOULT'S RAILWAY IN 1908 SPOILS BIG COUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9 (Supplement)

ROYAL SOULT'S RAILWAY IN 1908 SPOILS BIG COUP.

Turning the calendars back some, we find that 33 years ago Sam Lindsay was racing another fine galloper, Royal Soult, who won the Railway in 190 S. Royal Soult was only a pony in height, but very compact in build; in fact, a handsome little fellow and a rare galloper. As his name indicates, Royal Soult was by Soult, his mother hein~ a pomnamed Bavaria, whom Sam Lindsav had bought at one of Buckland's auctions for a "Tenner." When he took her home to Coromandel and "set"' her for the looat Cup, run over a mile and a quarter, his friepds laughed at him. He had the last laugh when Bavaria paid £42 for first on the 10/ tote and he left the machine weighed down, more or less, with his share of the gold standard.

It is interesting to recall that Royal Soult (R. E. Brown) defeated one* of the best fields ever sent out to contest a Railway, and, incidentally, that it would be difficult to find a finer team of jockeys in the racing history of the Dominion.

Just take a peep at this list. Master Soult, ridden by Charlie Jenkins, was second, and E. J. Watt's Aborigine (L. Wilson) third, while among those who finished out of a place were Grenadier (Jack McCombe), Dawn (F. D. Jones), Armlet (Hector Donovan), Flitaway (F. B. Jones), Miss Winnie (Phil Brady), Santa Rosa (Jimmy Buchanan), Gold Lace (Harry Price), Tamainupo (Ben Deeley).

Among Royal Soult's numerous other successes is numbered the Te Aroha Cup, in which he carried the record weight of 9.10. He is one of the few horses to have won a double at Ellerslie in one day. After he broke down in a ligament he did stud duty, siring several winners.

Royal Soult's victory in the Railway was fatal to a well-planned coup. AH Red and Master Soult had been backed •wherever possible throughout the Dominion to win the double. Charlie Jenkins had duly landed the Cup on Mr. Buckley's horse from BobrikofT, ridden by Fred Davis, now training Mr. Gaisford's horses at Matamata, with Jorvis George's "iron horse" Paritutu third. Paritutu had tried to lead all the way, but All Red came right away in the straight.